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Published on Leave a comment on Stars of Hope

By Shayla Shmuel, for the Fall 2020 Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship.    

My presentation is about the service-learning assignment that I participated in this semester, Stars of Hope.

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This project was part of Abbie Weiner’s course, COMM 1041: Interpersonal Communication. Students in this course learn the theories and principles of interpersonal communication while engaging in service-learning with local after-school programs, job training programs, and other service organizations.

Please be sure to cast your vote for the Symposium for Community Engaged Scholarship Audience Choice Award, LINK.  You are welcome to post comments and questions below.  

Published on Leave a comment on Free Minds Book Club

by Shoshana Bittker

I worked with Free Minds Book Club for my service learning project in COMM 1041 and this video is explains what I learned during my time in this project.

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This project was part of Abbie Weiner’s course, COMM 1041: Interpersonal Communication. Students in this course learn the theories and principles of interpersonal communication while engaging in service-learning with local after-school programs, job training programs, and other service organizations.

Please be sure to cast your vote for the Symposium for Community Engaged Scholarship Audience Choice Award.  

You are welcome to post comments and questions below.  

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Published on 2 Comments on Jews United for Justice

by Shoshana Bittker, Kristen Caldwell, Shira Strongin, and Molly Katz for the Fall 2020 Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship (HSSJ 1177)

This presentation was selected as a Fall 2020 Nashman Center Exemplar.

Our project group for HSSJ 1177 fall 2020 worked with Jews United for Justice throughout the semester and this is our project portfolio presentation.

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This project was part of Dr. Gretchen Van der Veer’s HSSJ 1177: Organizing Social Justice and Human Services. Students in this course learn theories of  community organizing and social justice while engaging in service-learning with DC-based advocacy and action organizations.

Please be sure to cast your vote for the Symposium for Community Engaged Scholarship Audience Choice Award.  You are welcome to post comments and questions below.  

Published on Leave a comment on Ballot Justice

Kristen Caldwell, Molly Katz, Shoshana Bittker, and Shira Strongin for the Fall 2020 Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship (HSSJ 1177)

This presentation describes our group's journey of working with Jews United for Justice to address ballot questions in Montgomery County, Maryland.

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This project was part of Dr. Gretchen Van der Veer’s HSSJ 1177: Organizing Social Justice and Human Services. Students in this course learn theories of  community organizing and social justice while engaging in service-learning with DC-based advocacy and action organizations.

Please be sure to cast your vote for the Symposium for Community Engaged Scholarship Audience Choice Award. You are welcome to post comments and questions below.  

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by Brandon Hill, for the Fall 2020 Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship (HSSJ 1177)

This presentation serves as an overview of our group's work with DC Action for Children as part of our HSSJ 1177 course. Our project relied on coalition building as we surveyed, organized, and mapped, out-of-school time programs in DC to allow for greater advocacy during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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This project was part of Dr. Gretchen Van der Veer’s HSSJ 1177: Organizing Social Justice and Human Services. Students in this course learn theories of  community organizing and social justice while engaging in service-learning with DC-based advocacy and action organizations.

Please be sure to cast your vote for the Symposium for Community Engaged Scholarship Audience Choice Award.  You are welcome to post comments and questions below.  

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Published on 2 Comments on Increasing Awareness of Equitable Housing and Development Programs in the District

by Noah Lindenberg, Lucy Hirsch, Willow Newcomb, Fiona Joseph, and Madeline Bailer, for the Fall 2020 Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship (HSSJ 1177)

This presentation was selected as a Fall 2020 Nashman Center Exemplar.

As students at GW who hope to live in DC post-grad, we must be committed to addressing the inequality and gentrification we are contributing to. We were thankful for the opportunity to partner with CNHED to promote awareness about this issue.

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This project was part of Dr. Gretchen Van der Veer’s HSSJ 1177: Organizing Social Justice and Human Services. Students in this course learn theories of  community organizing and social justice while engaging in service-learning with DC-based advocacy and action organizations.

Please be sure to cast your vote for the Symposium for Community Engaged Scholarship Audience Choice Award.  You are welcome to post comments and questions below.  

Published on Leave a comment on Tutoring Tools

by Jason Nguyen, for the Fall 2020 Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship.    

This presentation describes my journey as a tutor for the Latino Student Fund and the challenges and takeaways I got from the experience.

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This project was part of Abbie Weiner’s course, COMM 1041: Interpersonal Communication. Students in this course learn the theories and principles of interpersonal communication while engaging in service-learning with local after-school programs, job training programs, and other service organizations.

Please be sure to cast your vote for the Symposium for Community Engaged Scholarship Audience Choice Award.  You are welcome to post comments and questions below.  

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Published on 7 Comments on PUBH 6299: How The Mental Health System Can Better Serve Young Adults with Autism

by Carly Cox, for the Fall 2020 Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship.    

Congratulations from the Nashman Center on this semester's "Audience Choice Award" winner. This presentation was also selected as a Fall 2020 Nashman Center Exemplar.

My presentation examines how the mental health system can better serve young adults who have autism. This unique solution was determined using community participatory research.

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This project was part of Dr. Sean Cleary's course, PUBH 6299 The Autism Experience: A Public Health Perspective. In this unique course, designed in collaboration with local, autistic community members, GW students learn community participatory research methods while engaging with autistic young adults, their parents, researchers, clinicians and other service providers. The course covers the science, viewpoints, and experience of autism with a focus on young adults transitioning to adulthood. Working in partnership with community advocates, students explore research relevant to the autistic community.

Please be sure to cast your vote for the Symposium for Community Engaged Scholarship Audience Choice Award.  

You are welcome to post comments and questions below.  

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Published on 2 Comments on Culminating Experience SUST 3097

by Inaki De Larrauri, for the Fall 2020 Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship.    

This presentation was selected as a Fall 2020 Nashman Center Exemplar.

This is my personal experience working as a volunteer at Lacorsalud in their new Covid - 19 initiative in Bogota, Colombia.

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This project was part of Dr. Naamal DeSilva’s course, SUST 3097-30: Community-Engaged Research to Promote Environmental Justice. Students in this course work to create a shared understanding of the intersections among environmental, technological, socioeconomic, and political problems and opportunities within communities. They study specific problems faced by DC residents (or local communities during COVID-time), and then engage community-based stakeholders in researching, understanding, and addressing these problems. 

Please be sure to cast your vote for the Symposium for Community Engaged Scholarship Audience Choice Award.  You are welcome to post comments and questions below.  

Published on Leave a comment on Digital Storytelling for Student Reflection Assignments

This week, the Nashman Faculty Weekly Check-in meeting featured guest speaker Ben Horn, an Instructional Technologist from the CREATE Digital Studio, of GW's Libraries and Academic Innovation. Ben provided an overview of the applications available to GW faculty and students in Adobe Creative Cloud. These applications make it easy to create digital media content like digital stories and videos. Given this overview, I thought I'd share some of the resources available on using digital storytelling for service-learning/community engaged scholarship reflection assignments. 

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Published on Leave a comment on Human Service and Social Justice Students Discuss Senior Citizens in Ward 8

Four students in HSSJ were chosen for an exemplar award at the Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship. Shayna Druckman and group members Sophie Clemens, Alexia Veiga, and Grayson Hussong recently won the award.

Their project in Dr. Emily Morrison’s Human Services & Social Justice was charged with the task of researching, navigating, identifying key components, programs and services catering to Senior Citizens in Ward 8.  They focused on Ward 8 Seniors access to resources such as transportation, and services.

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Published on Leave a comment on Allen Wang Discusses Service with 7Cups

Allen Wang is a Junior in the Columbian College of Arts & Sciences who recently won an award for his work in BISC 1008 with 7 Cups at the Virtual Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship. Community-Engaged Scholar Emebte Atanaw spoke with Allen to discuss his project for the Understanding Organisms course with Dr. Tara Scully.

Allen’s project was teaming up with virtual community partner 7Cups, which is a free virtual counseling/therapy service for those who need a listening ear.

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Published on Leave a comment on First Place Nashman Prize Award Winners Discuss Informal Roads in Siberia

Jacob Tafrate and his group member Elizabeth Szafranski were the first place Nashman Prize winners at the Symposium on Community Engaged Scholarship.

Their project for the Geography department was titled Geographic Analysis of Informal Road Networks in Siberia. Tafrate explained that their project was “taking an interdisciplinary approach to understanding how informal road networks influence the Ivank people.” They focused on different road transfer networks and how they have changed and evolved over time, various hazards, and analyzing how it influenced the people in the area.

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Published on Leave a comment on Virtual Spring Symposium 2020 in Review

 The Nashman Center Spring 2020 Symposium was a success! The first ever "virtual" Symposium featured 26 presentations. Thank you to the 59 students who prepared video presentations about their community engaged scholarship projects this semester. Work from across the institution was represented, including the Biology, Geography and Sociology Departments, as well as the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The School of Nursing, the School of Public Health.

Congratulations to the award winners, announced below.

Click here to view all submitted presentations. If you are seeking a particular presentation or course, note the search box on the right side of the screen.

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Published on Leave a comment on Winners Announced for the 2020 Nashman Prize for CBPR

The Nashman Prize for Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is awarded annually at the GW Research Showcase. CBPR is an approach to research that involves community organizations and/or residents in the research process, with the aim of making a positive, sustainable  contribution to the community. We are happy to announce the winners for 2020.

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